TOLLBRIDGE TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES REVENUE SHIPMENTS TO REACH 10,000 GATEWAY PORTS BY MID-OCTOBER TB200 Local Exchange Gateway Allows Voice CLEC Customers to Profitably Serve Small Business Market Sunnyvale, Calif., September 13, 1999 - TollBridge Technologies Inc. announces that is has commenced revenue shipments of its TB200 Local Exchange Gateway and TB50 CPE for integrated voice and high speed data services over DSL. TollBridge field trials have now resulted in volume purchase orders from carrier customers with committed delivery of at least 10,000 gateway ports by mid-October. TollBridge is the first Voice over DSL equipment manufacturer to announce revenue shipments. hotels in Berlin"TollBridge has met its commitment to deliver a full-featured, carrier-class, toll-quality voice over DSL solution to our carrier customers," said Gary Tauss, president and CEO of TollBridge Technologies. "Our strategy is to provide multiline IP-based voice for business, offering a GR-303 connection to today's CLASS 5 switches and a migration path to next-generation IP-based Class 5 replacement switches." Because the TollBridge solution is IP packet-based, carriers can realize dramatic network efficiencies from their voice-over-broadband offerings. The TollBridge TollVoice architecture achieves high efficiency by packing samples from multiple voice calls into a single IP packet (IP Voice Trunking). TollVoice transports both voice and end-user data traffic over the broadband link and prioritizes voice over data to ensure toll quality. hôtels Turin"The Voice over DSL market is fast moving from concept to reality," said Paula Reinman , vice president of consulting at TeleChoice, Inc. "This market represents an immediately viable and attractive service offering for small to mid-sized businesses. Based on demand from these customers, TeleChoice believes that the market will be validated with a growing number of service provider announcements." About TollBridge Technologies Founded in March 1998 and located in Sunnyvale, Calif., TollBridge Technologies is the leading developer of IP-based multiline voice solutions targeted at Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs). The company's solutions change the economics of delivering voice services to small business customers by allowing voice CLECs that own Class 5 switches to use broadband access technologies, such as DSL, to bypass the Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (ILEC) and deliver toll-quality voice and integrated data services. For more information about TollBridge Technologies, visit the company's Website at http://www.tollbridgetech.com or contact Rich Farana at 408/585-2146. luxury hotels in EstorilTollBridge and TollVoice are trademarks of TollBridge Technologies, Inc. All other service marks and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. TollBridge and TollVoiceTMLevoca hotel reservations are trademarks of TollBridge Technologies, Inc. All other service marks and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |